Artist Statement

The cyclical nature of life and death haunts my thoughts and this notion is what drives me to preserve my ideas in clay. My studio practice emphasizes the border between what is recognized as real and what is embellished through transformation. I find inspiration from mythology as a way of bringing magic into the mundane and I create rough translations of things recalled from memory, often obscured in both scale and shape. What remains a constant in my work is my sense of touch and regardless of material, my fingertips are imprinted on everything I make. 

The images that I draw on the surface of my pieces or build sculpturally in clay tend to be things from my immediate surroundings, the flora and fauna that preoccupy my world that are overlooked despite their extraordinary existence. I am most attracted to beautiful plants that are dangerous, small animals that are ferocious, and the seemingly innocent relationship between them all. While these images are often referenced symbolically throughout history, it is their simultaneously universal yet deeply personal language that I aim to interpret.